Archive: Scholarship
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“‘Wasting Away’: Diabetes, Food Insecurity, and Medical Insecurity in the Somali Region of Ethiopia”
Emily Mendenhall and Lauren Carruth investigate rising concerns about diabetes among Somalis in eastern Ethiopia. They focus on communities where obesity is rare and people face chronic food insecurity, forced displacement, recurrent humanitarian crises, and lack of access to medical care.
Category: Scholarship
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“Physician Burnout in the Modern Era”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik looks at physicians’ professional stress through a historical lens. By examining different historical moments —from 19th century accounts of the “distinguished success” to “scandalous misconduct” of medical apprentices, to the 1970s advances in our understanding of burnout—, he considers the effects of the new wave of modernization on physicians.
Category: Scholarship
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“The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change”
Emily Mendenhall and Merrill Singer respond to the work the The Lancet Commission on the Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition, and Climate Change.
Category: Scholarship
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“Mysterious and Mortiferous Clouds: The Climate Cooling and Disease Burden of Late Antiquity”
Timothy Newfield inquires on the influence of climate on disease in Late Antiquity. Particular attention is paid to the Justinianic Plague, but the potential impacts of a changing climate on malaria and non-yersinial, non-plague, epidemics are not overlooked.
Category: Scholarship
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“Malaria Vaccine Trials in Pregnant Women: An Imperative Without Precedent”
Although pregnant women are highly susceptible to Plasmodium falciparum malaria, leading to substantial maternal, perinatal, and infant mortality, no trials of malaria vaccines have ever been conducted in pregnant women. This publication, co-authored by Maggie Little, resulted from the discussions held at an expert meeting convened in December 2016 at NIAID, NIH, in Rockville, Maryland to deliberate on the rationale and design of malaria vaccine trials in pregnant women.
Category: Scholarship
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“An Ethnopsychology of Idioms of Distress in Urban Kenya”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors propose a preliminary model of ethnopsychology which incorporates local and global idioms of distress used by urban Kenyans to express suffering, pain, or illness.
Category: Scholarship
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The Criminal Crowd and Other Writings on Mass Society
This book, with an introduction and notes by Nicoletta Pireddu, who edited and co-translated it, is the first English collection of writings by Italian jurist, sociologist, cultural and literary critic Scipio Sighele.
Category: Scholarship
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“When We Document End-of-Life Care, Words Still Matter”
Dr. Hunter Groninger and Anne M. Kelemen highlight the findings of the study “Language Used by Health Care Professionals to Describe Dying at an Acute Care Hospital”, and how providers’ discomfort in employing clear, direct terms when talking about dying can have unintended consequences, such as miscommunication, and missed or delayed opportunities to engage in the grieving process.
Category: Scholarship
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“Looking Ahead: The Importance of Views, Values, and Voices in Neuroethics—Now”
In light of the developments the body-to-head transplant (BHT) in China, which have attracted considerable attention and criticism, Dr. James Giordano reflects about the evermore international enterprise of brain science, and the need for neuroethical discourse to include and appreciate multicultural views, values, and voices.
Category: Scholarship
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“Understanding Heartbreak: From Takotsubo to Wuthering Heights”
Dr. Lakshmi Krishnan and Dr. Daniel Marchalik discuss the poetic and medical languages to describe heartbreak.
Category: Scholarship